ATTITUDES, PERCEPTION OF QUALITY OF LIFE IS PHYSICAL CONDITIONING WITH PEOPLE IN THE THIRD AGE. / "Atitudes, percepção de qualidade de vida e condicionamento físico com pessoas na terceira idade".

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The technological development comes reducing the physical effort in the last decades, demanding less from the organism, taking the people to be sedentary. This has been determining an increase in the life expectation, causing a great number of retired people that you/they need to be reintegrated the community. The phenomenon of the aging has been researchers of several areas of the knowledge focus, looking for to identify, in the people with age above sixty years, some characteristics to subsidize programs of social inclusion, besides treatment more adapted to the characteristic diseases of this age group, in a perspective psychosocial. This research had as objective to lift, under the perspective of the assisted subjects, some elements of evaluation of programs of physical conditioning for people that live in the third age. In this sense, attitude scales were built with base in the model bilateral proposed by Fishbein/Ajzen, looking goes to identify by it forces of faiths (b) about evaluations (e), of contents related to the accomplishment of programs of physical conditioning driven to the third acts. Studies of trustworthy based in the index Alpha of Crombach identified homogeneity in the scales. The results obtained by the administration in 30 people with acts over sixty years, alphabetized and without symptoms of diseases that could disable the participation in the research, they indicated prevalence of strong faiths on related positive contents the referring subcategories Social to Conviviality, Teleology, Maturities/Realizes/ Entrencherment, Married Relationships with relationship the Category 1, to live in the third acts. For another subcategories, Animation, the data accompanied these results, except for an item, whose dispersion of the points in the quadrant didn t allow an analysis of the conjugation between faiths and evaluations; for Anguish, such dispersion also prevailed, not having a modal direction for the conjugation between cognitions and related affections the contents of this subcategories. Considering the Category 2, they were found strong faiths regarding positive contents related to Beneficial Effects, Recreation and Activation, related the perspective of participating at this time of physical exercises of the life. Evaluations of measures about the administration of the physical conditioning demonstrated along the phase of assimilation of the program, won significant in whole accomplished evaluations, identifying changes of attitudes with relationship to negative effects related with the Physical Effort demanded during the accomplishment of the prescribed activities. Considering the perspective of people s social inclusion in the third age, as an unfolding of the participation in Programs of Physical Conditioning, the obtained data indicate, besides the gain perspective in physical conditioning, a search for the break of the inertia, social conviviality and leisure. Such results allow to conclude that the programs of physical conditioning represent an important element for the daily entrencherment for the people that live in the third age, taking them to a posture activates front to the challenges of the daily life, besides increasing the socializes process and recovery of the self-esteem in the social interaction.

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physical conditioning qualidade de vida atitudes terceira idade attitudes condicionamento físico quality of life third age

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